The latest Polish invitees are director Jan Komasa, whose credits include Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi and Warsaw ’44; scriptwriter Przemysław Chruścielewski (Corpus Christi, The Last Family); film editor Mateusz Pacewicz (Corpus Christi, Suicide Room: Hater); and casting director Magdalena Szwarcbart (two Oscar-winning movies: Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List).
A total of 819 filmmakers from 68 countries are among those newly invited to join the Oscar-voting body.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded in 1927 with a membership of about 300. It currently affiliates more than 9,000 artists and executives representing a wide range of movie industry professions.
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